Investigating Unusual Substorm in Earth’s Magnetotail
The illustration shows magnetic field lines around the Earth reconnecting in the magnetotail, usually one of the first signs of ...
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Breakthrough Findings From the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
This high-res processed image of the April 8 eclipse shows the Sun’s corona, its outermost atmosphere, in artificial colors that ...
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Next-Gen Refueling Spacecraft to Revitalize Satellites in Geostationary Orbit
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will build, integrate and test a small demonstration spacecraft as part of a $25.5 million Space ...
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Is Europa Habitable? Juno Spacecraft Measures Oxygen Production on Jupiter’s Moon
For the first time, SwRI scientists used the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) instrument to definitively detect oxygen and hydrogen ...
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The Stellar New Discovery From NASA’s Lucy Mission
This image shows the “moonrise” of the satellite, now named Selam, as it emerges from behind asteroid Dinkinesh as seen ...
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“We Never Suspected Anything So Bizarre!”
This image shows the asteroid Dinkinesh and its satellite as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) as NASA’s ...
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NASA Discovers Asteroid Has Its Own Tiny Moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for ...
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What Makes Saturn’s Moon Mimas Look Like The ‘Death Star’ Is New Evidence For An Underground Ocean, Say Shocked Scientists
Mimas' defining feature, Herschel Crater, makes it look like the "Death Star" from Star Wars. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Saturn, the ...
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